I CAN'T INSTALL UBUNTU LINUX ON MY COMPUTER WHY WON'T IT????

[John Levin]

On 6 Mar 2005, at 15:14, DON FERRIN wrote:

> I am a newbie to the Linux opperating system and am having trouble 
> installilng Ubuntu 4.10 and as far as that goes I have tried to 
> install Mandrake 10.1 and Fedora Core 3 Operating systems on my Compaq 
> Presario model # SR1023WM Computer that has a CD-Rom Drive Soney CD-RW 
> model # CRX215E5. I have my Bios set to Boot my CD-Rom DRive first on 
> my boot up of my Computer. I am running Windows XP on my computer. 
> What it is doing is that it keeps toggeling beween trying to install 
> Linux and booting up Windows XP it keeps doing this until I shut the 
> computer off or I take the Install Cd out of my computer. It does the 
> same thing with all of the systems that I have listed above. so what 
> should I do to get the Linux installed on my computer????
>

Is that the right model number? Seems more like a serial no. than a 
model no.
Anyway, first stop for you should be:
http://tuxmobil.org/compaq.html
Which carries reports on many installs on various Compaqs.
For the record, I tried the live cd on a Presario 2100 recently, and 
had no problems.

John

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